An Uncommon Cause of Anterior Knee Pain: Patellar Chondroma
JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC HEMATOLOGY ONCOLOGY, vol.36, no.1, pp.81-82, 2014 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 36 Issue: 1
- Publication Date: 2014
- Doi Number: 10.1097/mph.0b013e318292bc9d
- Journal Name: JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC HEMATOLOGY ONCOLOGY
- Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
- Page Numbers: pp.81-82
- Yozgat Bozok University Affiliated: Yes
Abstract
A 16-year-old boy presented with a patellar mass and anterior knee pain without any trauma. On physical and radiologic assessment, a mass at the superolateral edge of the patella and a hyperintense lesion on T2 sequences of magnetic resonance imaging was detected. Excisional biopsy revealed a chondroma of patella. Primary bone tumors of the patella are extremely rare and occurence of chondroma in this localization is very uncommon. Although anterior knee pain is a very frequent and usually harmless, it is essential to consider the more severe disorders such as bone tumors.